Apparel-buckle



A. H. KEHNGOOD. APPAREL BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1920.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES ALLEN H. KERNGOOD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR T0 ALMA MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A. CORPORA- TION OF MARYLAND.

APPAREL-BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN H. KERNGOOD,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparel-Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in that type of buckle represented in my Patent, No. 1,333,260, granted March 9, 1920, and the object of the invention is to provide for the greater security and stability of the connection of the tongue with the cross bar or frame of the buckle.

In furtherance of the stated object, the invention consists in interlocking the tongue connecting-means in such way as to prevent such means from parting or separating when strains are put upon the tongue, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanyin drawings illustrating the invention, in t e several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the tongue connecting-means before being united or interlocked. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the tongue connecting-means interlocked. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross sections on the lines 3-3 and 44 respectively of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line 5--5 of Fig. 2.

The drawings show the buckle in enlarged form, although the invention is not limited to size.

The frame 1 may be of any approved construction, preferably that shown and described in the patent referred to. The cross bar 2 has the central depression 3 and the shoulders 4 as in said patent, and the rearward upstanding flanges 5 and 6 which serve as stops to prevent the overthrow and dislocation of the tongue.

About midway of the depression 3 are lugs 7 and 8 projecting in opposite directions from the cross bar and provided with any suitable interlocking means, such as the tenon 9 and socket 10.

When said lugs are folded over the head 11 of the staple-like tongue 12, the tenon 9 enters the socket 10 so as to inseparably interlock the lugs about the tongue and thereby secure the tongue in place on the cross bar and between the shoulders i. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, this provision of interlocking means enables the lugs to be substantially rounded over the head of the tongue in substantial conformity to the tongue and without projection. The tenon and socket constitute an interlocking or dovetailed joint which prevents the separation of the lugs under strains incident to the application and use of the buckle, and insure the retention of the tongue in a substantially fixed relation in the buckle frame, so that the tongue is prevented from lateral displacement as well as from turning over backward, and there is no possibility of the interlocked lugs separating.

The invention is not limited to the form of interlocking or dovetailed joint, or other details of construction, since these details may be varied within the principle of the invention and the scope of the claims following.

What I claim is 1. An apparel buckle, having a frame rovided with a tongue, a cross bar on w ich the tongue is mounted, and lugs projecting in opposite directions from the cross bar and adapted to be folded over the tongue and having interlocking means to secure the tongue on said cross bar.

2. An apparel buckle, having a frame provided with a tongue, a cross bar on which the tongue is mounted, interlocking lugs on the cross bar adapted to engage the tongue to secure the tongue on said cross bar, and stops on the rear of the cross bar to prevent the-overturning of the tongue.

3. An apparel buckle, having a frame provided with a tongue, a cross bar on which the tongue is mounted, lugs extending forwardly and rearwardly from said cross bar and adapted to be bent over upon the tongue, and interlocking elements on said lugs forinseparably connecting said lugs in place over the tongue.

4. An apparel buckle, having a frame provided with a tongue, a cross bar on which the tongue is mounted, and lugs projecting forwardly and rearwardly from said cross bar and provided respectively With a tenon and socket for effecting the inseparable connection of said lugs about said tongue.

5. An apparel buckle, having a frame provided with a cross bar having a central shouldered depression, a stap1e-like tongue mounted in said depression, and lugs extending from opposite sides of said depression and bent over the tongue and provided with interlocking means for inseparably uniting 10 said lugs over the tongue.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set myihand this 29thday of June A. D. 1920.

' I ALLEN H KERNGOOD. 

